Thanks to some help from CC of labs.laan.com, I was able to throw together a swf that checks to see if each of the search results on quickerly points to a valid mp3. If the mp3 is a dead link, I remove it from the search results. I know it was frustrating to click on [...]
Entries Tagged as 'apps'
Quickerly Just Got Better
August 21st, 2008 ·
New Shiz! Quickerly.com
June 28th, 2008 ·
About two weeks ago I threw together a quick prototype of the kind of thing you can build with tinydb.org. I was going to wait and polish it a bit more before letting people use it, but I kept wanting to send people songs so I just had to start using it myself and [...]
Product Beta: labs.laan releases Summize Air App
May 21st, 2008 · 1 Comment
My good friends at labs.laan.com just put together an air app that will replace Twhirl and other twitter clients for me. Rather than using the Twitter API, they use the Summize API, which allows you to create a much more customized dashboard than Twitter would.
Here’s a dashboard I threw together in 30 seconds:
I can’t wait [...]
tinydb.org facilitates sharing
May 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Jason and I got bored at the Google AppEngine Hackathon today and built a serivce called tinydb.org.
tinydb’s potential merits a longer blog post. Right now, I’m imagining a dozen different web services that can be built on top of this platofrm.
A longer post explaining the potential of tinydb is forthcoming. For now, the hackers among [...]
